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Of the six Star Wars movie which is your LEAST favorite? — Page 2

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When I first watched AOTC, I just couldn't watch TPM the same way, it felt so bad by comparison, and so far away from anything closely resembling SW. Then I watched ROTS, I can't watch AOTC anymore, I just can't, it's just horrible. So, thankfully, there will be no "episode 3 and a half", so ROTS is the only prequel I can watch from begining to end. But that makes TPM the worse of them all.
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Don't be too harsh on me but to me the worst out of the six is a toss up between AOTC and .... EMPIRE!

To me, Empire is the least watchable in the series. I find it to be repetitive (did we really need to see the MF's hyperdrive fail three times?) and the editing is confusing. Are we to believe that Luke was trained in two days time? Luke's training is intercut with the misadventures of the Millenium Falcon, which appears to last approximately 48 hours at most. The most enjoyable part to me is the confrontation between Vader and Luke. I think it is the best saber fight in the original trilogy and of course, the huge plot device that was revealed helps. I have seen Empire the most out of all six, which doesn't help either. AOTC is a much lesser film than Empire in many ways, but AOTC is still fresh to me (I have watched it less than 5 times, including the Magnolia edit). If given the choice between the two, I'd certainly pop in AOTC first.
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My least favorite is the phantom menace. IM a huge star wars fan, but its just kindof boring.The kid who plays anakin is a horrible actor (no offense), and to me there isnt much of a point. Except for the Jedi deul, thats pretty cool. otherwise it pretty much sucks
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How can you hate the originals, all of them are awesome. A new hope i have to admit is a slow start, but still their all freakin awesome.
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Dude, how long is that podracing scene? The last time I watched TPM I fast forwarded like 30 minutes of Tatooine. Darth Maul was cool, though. The only reason AOTC is a little better is because they throttled back the Jar Jar fart joke type of stuff.
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When I first watched AOTC, I just couldn't watch TPM the same way, it felt so bad by comparison, and so far away from anything closely resembling SW. Then I watched ROTS, I can't watch AOTC anymore, I just can't, it's just horrible. So, thankfully, there will be no "episode 3 and a half", so ROTS is the only prequel I can watch from begining to end. But that makes TPM the worse of them all.




That's congruent with my experience, ricarleite.
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TPM I hate to say this and never thought I would say this about a Star Wars film, I find bits of this totally boring and bits totally unwatchable!
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Looking back on it, I didn't think TPM was actually that bad. Sure, JarJar was horrendious, but the story wasn't that bad besides, IMHO. My least favorite was AOTC. The 'mystery of the clones' was dull, and the Anakin/Padme romance was silly. The only redeeming quality of AOTC was the presence of Christopher Lee as Count Dooku. The caracter was great, and Christoper Lee always makes for a great villian.
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I thought AOTC was pretty bad, but when I watched the deleted scenes, I liked it a little more. Some interesting, almost necessary stuff was chopped out in favor of extended fight sequences that would've made the movie make more sense and not feel so cheesy and forced. I still think it's lackluster overall, with "missed potential" being the key phrase. I forget if fan-edits have incorporated the deleted material or not? And if I remember correctly from some cut scenes sites, isn't there more stuff on the cutting room floor that wasn't on the DVD? Guess that maybe'll be on a Super Special 3-D Edition someday.

TPM is just dull, and weak. I don't think I've watched the original version more than twice-- I can't even get through it anymore. Talking about the PT now, Lucas seems to have reluctantly wrote them in a such a deliberate way, as if only one thing should be accomplished in each movie, then stuffing Ep. III like a Hot Pocket, and he really didn't have to. There were a million possibilities (regardless of whether or not he actually planned it since the '70's or not), and to have done "Ep. I = needless setup", etc. really was kind of a waste.
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Phantom Menace. This is comparing it to the other star wars movies though, i seen many worse movies. The podrace was awesome, and the lightsaber duel with maul is still my favorite because ray park is the only martial artist actually in a lightsaber duel. My two favorite villains would have to be maul and fett and they both met untimely deaths, but somehow jar jar survives the entire saga. and i still think Return of the jedi would've been a better movie is kersh and kurtz were involved, sure theres still some good bits in there but it would've been a more adult film. Besides the fact that you could tell things were sloppily rushed and ends tied up, when originally it would've taken two trilogies to tell luke's story, four films were compressed into one. The film ended up being kiddieized and turned into a movie with teddy bears. I was lost thinking this is star wars not a carebear movie.

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Originally posted by: Grandmaster_Windu
Don't be too harsh on me but to me the worst out of the six is a toss up between AOTC and .... EMPIRE!

To me, Empire is the least watchable in the series. I find it to be repetitive (did we really need to see the MF's hyperdrive fail three times?) and the editing is confusing. Are we to believe that Luke was trained in two days time? Luke's training is intercut with the misadventures of the Millenium Falcon, which appears to last approximately 48 hours at most. The most enjoyable part to me is the confrontation between Vader and Luke. I think it is the best saber fight in the original trilogy and of course, the huge plot device that was revealed helps. I have seen Empire the most out of all six, which doesn't help either. AOTC is a much lesser film than Empire in many ways, but AOTC is still fresh to me (I have watched it less than 5 times, including the Magnolia edit). If given the choice between the two, I'd certainly pop in AOTC first.




I don't see how Luke's short time on Daghobah training with Yoda is unrealistic when it was supposed to be rushed. I mean, it's not like he was that much of a better Jedi when he ran off the cloud city. Vader kicked his butt in that duel. Heck, Luke gained a LOT more of his Jedi skills BETWEEN MOVIES then he did during any of them. In the original Star Wars, he has like one short lesson and by Empire, he's considerably stronger. And then by Jedi, with no additional training, Luke is 10 times more powerful than he was in Empire (and Yoda claims he needs no more training, even though in Empire, he insists he needed it).

Also, I am so glad that Empire shows us what Jedi training is all about. We get just a teeny peak at that in Star Wars, but by Jedi, Luke is practically a full fledged Jedi (did he get the Jedi training manual) and in the prequels, all of Anakin's training is done BETWEEN movies. To me, that makes Empire a superior film, because they SHOWED. In most of the other films they TOLD.

I find Menace to be the least watchable. It's soooooo boring, slow, and confusing. There's nothing entertaining about it to me and I think the action scenes don't work because it's all razzle dazzle, but there's no emotion tied to it because the characters are so ininteresting.

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